Software Engineer, Robotics
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 22H AGO
Applied AIonsite$130k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build pipelines delivering real-world robotics data to frontier AI labs.
- Own delivery end to end from schema design to validation at petabyte scale.
- Turn evolving client needs into reusable components for physical AI.
What they offer
- Bi-annual performance bonus
- Equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus if within 0.5 miles of office
- $1.5K monthly meals stipend
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly wellness reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
Ideal candidate
A delivery-minded backend engineer who thrives in ambiguity and customer-facing work, iterating fast with product and ops to ship reliable data pipelines for physical AI.
Requirements
- Strong backend and data engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust) and comfort operating production systems on AWS and GCP
- Experience building and owning high-volume data pipelines, not just contributing to them
- Experience with large binary formats, streaming ingestion, distributed batch processing, and object storage economics
- Customer-facing instincts: you can lead a technical conversation, ask the right questions, and push back when a request is unreasonable
- Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively with a product team, where requirements evolve with the customers and data types
- remote policy
- 5 days per week in-office, no remote
Lab profile
About Mercor
AI data company organizing human expertise to train frontier models for the AI economy.
What they build
- APEX benchmark family
- Mercor Enterprise
- Human expertise training data platform
Known for
- Massive domain-expert network
- Frontier model training infrastructure
- Real-world professional work evaluation
Key facts
- Millions of domain experts on platform
- Pays over $4M per day to experts